Syphilis is a venereal disease that was widespread and incurable in Joplin's time, but became curable with the introduction of penicillin. There's another piece of his that you probably know as well That's Scott Joplin's Maple Leaf Rag, arguably his most famous composition. Emi Ferguson: There are instances in Joplin's last days that point to symptoms of neurosyphilis. A post shared by Nick Beyelia (@nicholasbeyelia). Even so, jazz bands and recording artists such as Tommy Dorsey in 1936, Jelly Roll Morton in 1939 and J. Russel Robinson in 1947 released recordings of Joplin compositions. He would write to the newspapers telling him what music he had just written. So we really know too little about Scott Joplin. [92], After his death in 1917, Joplin's music and ragtime in general waned in popularity as new forms of musical styles, such as jazz and novelty piano, emerged. In 1924, Dillinger was diagnosed with gonorrhea when he was first sent to prison. After suffering deteriorating health due to syphilis, Joplin [15], According to a family friend, the young Joplin was serious and ambitious studying music and playing the piano after school. Ed Berlin: And when, uh, people who knew him were interviewed, they were talking 50, 60, 70 years after they knew him. Many famous historical figures, including Charles VIII of France, Christopher Columbus, Hernn Corts of Spain, Benito Mussolini, and Ivan the Terrible, were often alleged to have had syphilis or other sexually transmitted infections. Sometimes these allegations were false and formed part of a political whispering campaign. It is believed that the score for A Guest of Honor was lost and perhaps destroyed because of non-payment of the company's boarding house bill.[46]. Many famous historical figures, including Charles VIII of France, Christopher Columbus,[2] Hernn Corts of Spain, Benito Mussolini, and Ivan the Terrible,[2] were often alleged to have had syphilis or other sexually transmitted infections. After Colonel Rodgers died in April 1884 and following the subsequent departure of Weiss, Joplin may also have left Texarkana. "[68], Berlin speculates about parallels between the plot and Joplin's own life. [88], Joplin and his fellow ragtime composers rejuvenated American popular music, fostering an appreciation for African-American music among European-Americans by creating exhilarating and liberating dance tunes. Aleister contracted gonorrhea as a teenager. In the latter part of 1916, he was admitted to Manhattan State Hospital, a mental hospital, where he would never leave until he passed away on April 1, 1917. I'm John Schaefer, and today is the final episode of flute player Emi Ferguson's miniseries, This Composer is Sick, exploring the impact of syphilis on the lives of classical composers. Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec frequently lived and painted in brothels, where he made friends with prostitutes as he painted and drew them at play and work. Every penny counts! A post shared by Shiny History Gems (@shinyhistorygems). Emi Ferguson: That's Joplin biographer and ragtime scholar, Ed Berlin. Very few rashes of other causes involve the palms and soles, so if you develop a rash that covers your palms and soles, you should get a blood test for syphilis. New York Public Radio transcripts are created on a rush deadline, often by contractors. Matt Frassica is our editor. At first, Joplin stayed with the family of Arthur Marshall. [42] In 1911, unable to find a publisher, Joplin undertook the financial burden of publishing Treemonisha himself in piano-vocal format. He didn't live long enough to see his masterpiece, the opera Carmen, become a classic, because he fell ill with a severe throat infection, which in turn triggered two heart attacks and a ruptured lesion on the side of his neck, which was briefly suspected by the police to be a self-inflicted gunshot wound. After his move to New York, Joplin met Lottie Stokes, whom he married in 1909. In 1976, Joplin was posthumously awarded a Pulitzer Prize. There was no orchestra. Well, he died in 1917 and early-1940s, that's when that's when some jazz musicians began playing Scott Joplin's music. After his move to New York, Joplin met Lottie Stokes, whom he married in 1909. In 1907, Joplin moved to New York City to find a producer for a new opera. He had no money and was forced to be hospitalized in a mental institution, where he died a few months later, on April 1, 1917. It is a simple, routine blood test. He achieved fame for his compositions and was dubbed the King of Ragtime. Revival of Scott Joplins Work By the 1920s, if not earlier, Joplins work fell into obscurity. This was followed by the Academy Awardwinning 1973 film The Sting, which featured several of Joplin's compositions, most notably "The Entertainer", a piece performed by pianist Marvin Hamlisch that received wide airplay. Adolf Hitler initiated fascist policies in Nazi Germany that led to World War II and the deaths of at least 11 million people. His father, Giles, was a former slave, and his mother, Florence, was a freed woman from Kentucky. Scott Joplin. Joplins music comes back into popularity, and its stayed popular ever since. Joplin was born near Linden, Texas to Florence Givins and Giles (sometimes listed as 'Jiles') Joplin. At the time, he was at work on his Symphony No. The quartet got great reviews. Ed Berlin: For example, it shows a definite influence of blues, and, uh, it shows the influence of Yiddish theater. Which is greater 36 yards 2 feet and 114 feet 2 inch? Australian Dictionary of Biography, vol. After further periods of residence in Sedalia, Chicago, and St. Louis, with a possible visit home to Texarkana, he followed publisher Stark to New York in 1907, using the city as a base for his East Coast touring, until he settled down there permanently in 1911, to devote his serious energies to the production of Treemonisha, mounted unsuccessfully early in 1915. As honest in perspective, it was possibly by one of the women that modeled for him and were known, alcoholics. "[50], By 1916, Joplin had developed tertiary syphilis,[51][52] but more specifically it likely was neurosyphilis. That disease, which can now be treated by penicillin, was more dangerous at the beginning of the 20th century. [87] Although that recording is severely damaged, a cleaned-up MIDI version reveals a considerably stronger performance. Donizetti. He was playing it at the piano and there were singers. The turn of the century marked a turning point both for Joplin's life and career, and also for scientific progress in syphilis treatment. The unprecedented standard of excellence that he set and maintained earned ragtime world-wide renown. Remember, late neurosyphilis can also result in depression, dementia, personality changes, and more. Where was Scott Joplin born? There are many titles that, uh, people had spoken of that were never published. This appearance was directed by Gunther Schuller, and soprano Carmen Balthrop alternated with Kathleen Battle as the title character. [24] By 1897, ragtime had become a national craze in U.S. cities and was described by the St. Louis Dispatch as "a veritable call of the wild, which mightily stirred the pulses of city bred people.J"[25]. It was apparently found in a mislabeled box of wax cylinders sold on eBay, long after Blesh examined the June 1916 recording, and is likely to date from earlier in Joplin's life, in April 1916. During 1893 Joplin played in sporting areas adjacent to the Columbian Exposition in Chicago, and the next year he moved to Sedalia, Missouri, from whence he toured with his eight-member Texas Medley Quartette as far east as Syracuse, New York, and, in 1896, into Texas, where he possibly witnessed the staged collision of two M.K.&T. The turn of the century marked a turning point both for Joplin's life and career, and also for scientific progress in syphilis treatment. Emi Ferguson: There was one section of the opera that he heard in its fully orchestrated version, the Frolic of the Bears.. Joplin moves to St. Louis in 1901, and composes the first of two operas, as well as many of his piano rags. He was afraid that his, that after he died, his music would be stolen. Ed Berlin: He was apparently a very fine singer. Emi Ferguson: That agent being the bacterium Treponema Pallidum. It also destroyed his ability to write music. However, in 1933, she was rushed to the hospital with abdominal pain, where she was diagnosed with gonorrhea and underwent an emergency hysterectomy. WebScott Joplin was born on November 24, 1867 or 1868, near Marshall, Texas. Two famous people who died of Syphilis are Scott Joplin and Al Capone. By 1916, Joplin was experiencing the devastating physical and mental effects of syphilis, a disease he had probably contracted almost 20 years earlier. He was bankrupt, discouraged, and worn out." Emi Ferguson: That's Dr. Sheila Lukehart, our resident syphilis expert. He died of syphilis. Namely, Scott Joplin. The sheet music went on to sell over a million copies. He also formed an opera company and toured with a production of his first opera. His gang robbed four police stations and two dozen banks. Copyright 2022 New York Public Radio. Janis Joplin died because of a heron overdose. [109], 1974 saw the Birmingham Royal Ballet under director Kenneth MacMillan create Elite Syncopations, a ballet based on tunes by Joplin and other composers of the era. [57] This new art form, the classic rag, combined Afro-American folk music's syncopation and 19th-century European romanticism, with its harmonic schemes and its march-like tempos. Tallulah Brockman Bankhead, born on January 31, 1902, in Huntsville, Alabama, was an award-winning actress. This was the largest psychiatric hospital in the world at the time. In 1914, Joplin and Lottie self-published his "Magnetic Rag" as the Scott Joplin Music Company, which he had formed the previous December. A post shared by Fotogramas (@fotogramas_es). In 1916, suffering from tertiary syphilis and by consequence rapidly deteriorating health, Joplin descended into dementia. This Composer is Sick, Ep4 - Scott Joplin Didn't Die of Opera FailureRelease Date: September 29, 2022. [90], Composer and actor Max Morath found it striking that the vast majority of Joplin's work did not enjoy the popularity of the "Maple Leaf Rag", because while the compositions were of increasing lyrical beauty and delicate syncopation, they remained obscure and unheralded during his life. Scott Joplin contracted syphilis which resulted in his death.no '"[17] Weiss had studied music at a German university and was listed in town records as a professor of music. In 1976 Joplin was posthumously awarded a Pulitzer Prize for Treemonisha, the first grand opera by an African American. It is not certain how many productions were staged, or even if this was an all-Black show or a racially mixed production. WebBy about 1915, Scott Joplin began suffering badly from syphilis. We know too little about Scott Joplin probably because of race. In the US, there are about 820,000 new gonorrhea infections every year. [33] Joplin wrote his rags as "classical" music in miniature form in order to raise ragtime above its "cheap bordello" origins and produced work that opera historian Elise Kirk described as "more tuneful, contrapuntal, infectious, and harmonically colorful than any others of his era. Even if he lived in Edinburgh, where he worked as a lawyer, James Boswell made frequent trips to London. He was an American statesman and lawyer who served as the 16th President of the US from March 1861 until his assassination in 1865. This would have been five years before he would have even, his first rags, so its possible that most or all of his composition career overlapped with his having syphilis. With appropriate use of antibiotics, it is almost always a curable disease. Signup today for our free newsletter, Especially Texan. [26], In the 1960s, a small-scale reawakening of interest in classical ragtime was underway among some American music scholars, such as Trebor Tichenor, William Bolcom, William Albright and Rudi Blesh. Here's Emi. Next time, cellist Andrew Yee joins us with an audio memoir about their experiences as a biracial transwoman. [49] Biographer Vera Brodsky Lawrence speculates that Joplin was aware of his advancing deterioration due to syphilis and was "consciously racing against time." By age seven, Joplin was allowed to play the piano in places where his mother was cleaning. No, he died in 1917 of a disease called syphilis. [78], While Joplin never made an audio recording, his playing is preserved on seven piano rolls for use in mechanical player pianos. As a reminder, you can get tested and treated at a nearby sexual health clinic if youre worrried you might have syphilis or any sexually transmitted infection. He was buried in St. Michael's Cemetery in New York City. [30] There is no record of Joplin having a permanent residence in the town until 1904, as Joplin was making a living as a touring musician. In addition, the themes of superstition and mysticism evident in Treemonisha are common in the operatic tradition, and certain aspects of the plot echo devices in the work of the German composer Richard Wagner (of which Joplin was aware). Throughout the latter half of the twentieth century Scott Joplin's music won more critical recognition. There was like a decade between the identification of the organism, the, um, first development of the first serological test, thats a blood test, the same quick and easy test we use today to identify syphilis. [3][35][36], Although there were hundreds of rags in print by the time the "Maple Leaf Rag" was published, Scott was not far behind. Namely, Scott Joplin. If you do nothing, these symptoms can go away or recur for as long as a year. Joplin played the piano, guitar and mandolin. Like many New Yorkers, he moves around the city, living all over Manhattan, and took in the many different cultures of New York. Currently, he is accused of giving his ex-girlfriend Cathriona White 3 sexually transmitted diseases (including Gonorrhea) before her suicide. To wrap things up, she looks at a composer who spent his last years in New York City, and is buried in Queens. This was known as the general paresis of the insane. Ed Berlin: His widow, Lottie Joplin said that toward the end, he became very difficult and paranoid. September 1884 seems to be a seminal month in Joplin's life, signifying either his departure from the border town or the date when he became an assistant teacher in Texarkana's Negro school. August 1984 saw the German premiere of Treemonisha at the Stadttheater Gieen. How did you use the result to determine who walked fastest and slowest? In 1895, he entered the Moral Science Tripos at Trinity College. WebResearcher Edward Berlin theorizes that by the time Joplin reached St Louis, he was already beginning to suffer the physical effects of syphilis, which would take his life in All seven were made in 1916. She was known for her racy affairs, flamboyant personality, and deep voice. John Herbert Dillinger. And so, you know, the, the stories change memories, memories are difficult. several of his compositions used in the score of the Academy Award-winning film, the United States Postal Service stamp of him issued as part of its Black Heritage commemorative series, in 1983, a star on the St. Louis Walk of Fame, in 1989. Just between 2016 and 2020, case rates increased 52%. Emi Ferguson: The Texas Medley Quartet toured the midwest, and there are also newspaper records of performances by them in Syracuse and Boston. He attempted to go beyond the limitations of the musical form that had made him famous but without much monetary success. induction into the Songwriters Hall of Fame by the National Academy of Popular Music in 1970, 53 years after he died. [6][7][8] His birth date was accepted by early biographers Rudi Blesh and James Haskins as November 24, 1868,[9][10] although later biographer Edward A. Berlin showed this was "almost certainly incorrect". Jim Carrey is famous for hisflexible facial expressions and rubbery body movements. ", sfnp error: no target: CITEREFAnon.1974a (, Record World Magazine July 1974, quoted in, "Pleasant Moments Ragtime Waltz" played by Scott Joplin (April 1916), "Maple Leaf Rag" played by Scott Joplin (June 1916), Best Instrumental Soloist Performance (without orchestra), New England Conservatory Ragtime Ensemble, Academy Award for Best Original Song Score and Adaptation, "Play about Scott Joplin is electrifying. [39], There have been many claims about the sales of the "Maple Leaf Rag", one being that Joplin was the first musician to sell 1 million copies of a piece of instrumental music. Music historian Ian Whitcomb mentions that Joplin "opined that 'Maple Leaf Rag' would make him 'King of Ragtime Composers' but he also knew that he would not be a pop hero in his own lifetime. He published his first composition in 1895, a song called "Please Say You Will." It also brought Joplin a steady income for life. WQXR is supporting early to mid-year career artists. A post shared by the_attic_archive (@the_attic_archive). There are many titles that, uh, people had spoken of that were never published. [42] It was in St. Louis that Joplin produced some of his best-known works, including "The Entertainer", "March Majestic", and the short theatrical work "The Ragtime Dance". According to Joplin's widow Lottie, Joplin never forgot Weiss. Ed Berlin: Probably around 1911 he put on a private performance in, in a small theater in Harlem. developing more effective treatments than the mercury treatments that had been used for centuries prior. You can hear this in his last published piece, the Magnetic Rag from 1914. when he would have contracted syphilis, because we generally know so little about Joplins life. We don't know, but this may have been an early sign of syphilis. So instead he destroyed it. However, some who heard him perform in St. Louis felt his piano playing was uncoordinated. He continues composing, and marries his third wife, Lottie. Booker T Washington would've been the guest of honor. In 1900, he started a tour of the world that would include Mexico, where he was initiated into the Masonic Order. In 1907, Joplin moved to New York City, which he believed was the best place to find a producer for a new opera. Impressed by Joplin's talent, and realizing the Joplin family's dire straits, Weiss taught him free of charge. She died on September 10, 1904, of complications resulting from a cold, ten weeks after their wedding. Janis Joplin died because of a heron overdose. Sometimes these allegations were false and formed part of a political whispering campaign. [93], In 1968, Bolcom and Albright interested Joshua Rifkin, a young musicologist, in the body of Joplin's work. Ed Berlin: He said that his music will be appreciated after he's dead for 25 years. WebIn 1916, Joplin descended into dementia as a result of syphilis. Joplin even posthumously won the Pulitzer Prize in 1976 for Treemonisha. The company toured briefly, then settled into an eight-week run in New York on Broadway at the Palace Theatre in October and November. Jazz was starting to supplant ragtime in popularity by 1917, and Joplin had become ravaged by syphilis he contracted as a young man. The contract stipulated that Joplin would receive a 1% royalty on all sales of the rag, with a minimum sales price of 25 cents. Deutsch negotiated with New York Public Library to get Treemonisha copyright and got the Joplin estate $60,000 in the '70s when someone infringed on that copyright. He was a remarkable figure in Regency England and, for numerous years, the arbiter of mens fashion. that he had syphilis. He died there in January of the next year. We do still have his second opera, Treemonisha, which takes place on a plantation in Arkansas in September of 1884, and traces the journey of a young Black woman named Treemonisha, who becomes a leader of her community. I'm John Schaefer, and today is the final episode of flute player Emi Ferguson's miniseries, This Composer is Sick, exploring the impact of syphilis on the lives of classical composers. In 1939, Tallulah was in the play The Little Foxes. The disease robbed him of his ability to play piano. His collected works were published by the New York Public Library in 1971, and his music was featured in the 1973 motion picture The Sting, which won an Academy Award for its film score. Henri Marie Raymond de Toulouse-Lautrec-Monfa was a French printmaker,painter, caricaturist,draughtsman, and illustrator whose immersion in the theatrical and colorful life of Paris in the late 19th century allowed him to produce a collection of enticing images of the affairs of those times. Joplin was admitted to Manhattan State Hospital, on Ward's Island, in New York City in February of 1917. Biographer Susan Curtis speculates that Florence's support of her son's musical education was a critical factor behind her separation from Giles, who wanted the boy to pursue practical employment that would supplement the family income. It's also on his death certificate. Losing control of his hands In other instances, retrospective diagnoses of suspected cases have been made in modern times. Indeed each of the Rodgers family learned a musical instrument, and young Rollin Rodgers became a lifelong opera enthusiast (the same subject that haunted Joplin in his later years) due to Weiss's encouragement. Joplin moved to St. Louis, where he was able to live relatively comfortably by composing, teaching and performing his ragtime music. Because of the lack of national exposure given to the brief Morehouse College staging of the opera in 1972, many Joplin scholars wrote that the Houston Grand Opera's 1975 show was the first full production. [15], When Joplin was learning the piano, serious musical circles condemned ragtime because of its association with the vulgar and inane songs "cranked out by the tune-smiths of Tin Pan Alley. The roll, however, may not reflect his abilities earlier in life. What is A person who sells flower is called? (1994). Ragtime found its characteristic Theodore Albrecht, King David almost certainly died of syphilis. Actually, he contracted a venereal disease from his very first sexual contact. Joplin's death is widely considered to mark the end of ragtime as a mainstream music format; over the next several years, it evolved with other styles into stride, jazz and, eventually, swing. The Entertainer, which you definitely know if you've ever heard an ice-cream truck driving by. [37] The exact circumstances that led to the publication of the "Maple Leaf Rag" are unknown and a number of versions of the event contradict each other. [20] However, Joplin soon learned that there were few opportunities for Black pianists. He had syphilis of the brain and spinal cord, which rendered him paralyzed and insane. There was supposed to be a performance in Illinois, with Joplin himself singing the role of Booker T. Washington, but unfortunately for Joplin, the manager of the company performing it ran off with the money and the performance was canceled. The "Maple Leaf Rag" was likely to have been known in Sedalia before its publication in 1899; Brun Campbell claimed to have seen the manuscript of the work in around 1898. Joplin achieved fame for his ragtime compositions and was dubbed the "King of Ragtime Writers". Booker T Washington would've been the guest of honor. The Texas Medley Quartet toured the midwest, and there are also newspaper records of performances by them in Syracuse and Boston. In addition to his output of increasingly sophisticated individual rags, Joplin began to integrate ragtime idioms into works in the larger musical forms: a ballet, The Ragtime Dance (1899); and two operas, The Guest of Honor (190203) and Treemonisha (190610). Like this one. He died in New York He was only 49, his life cut short by a disease he battled with for much of his adult life, and a disease thats. And so, you know, the, the stories change memories, memories are difficult. What happened to the oprea- a guest of honor? 'When I'm dead twenty-five years, people are going to recognize me,' he told a friend." "[89] Joplin historian Bill Ryerson adds that "In the hands of authentic practitioners like Joplin, ragtime was a disciplined form capable of astonishing variety and subtletyJoplin did for the rag what Chopin did for the mazurka. After his death, jazz historian Floyd Levin noted: "Those few who realized his greatness bowed their heads in sorrow. The agent of syphilis was first identified in 1905. . John Schaefer: This episode was produced by Emi Ferguson, Max Fine, and Laura Boyman. One of his first and most popular pieces, the "Maple Leaf Rag", became the genre's first and most influential hit, later being recognized as the quintessential rag. In 1983, the Missouri Department of Natural Resources made it the first state historic site in Missouri dedicated to African American heritage. WebScott Joplin. Psalm 38, written by David, describes the symptoms of the disease to a t. Treemonisha teaches us that education brings the community together in fighting racial prejudice. In 1904, at age 36, he married Freddie Alexander of Little Rock, Arkansas, but she died ten weeks later of "complications from a cold." [21][22], In 1893, while in Chicago for the World's Fair, Joplin formed a band in which he played cornet and also arranged the band's music. His potential affliction with syphilis is one of many ascribed to the tragic Dutch artist. He was born on June 22, 1903, in the Oak Hill section [53] The King of Ragtime died there on April 1 of syphilitic dementia at the age of 48[47][54] and was buried in a pauper's grave that remained unmarked for 57 years. By 1916, Joplin was experiencing the devastating physical and mental effects of syphilis, a disease he had probably contracted almost 20 years earlier. His father was a laborer for the railroads who played the violin and his mother was a cleaning lady who sang and played the banjo. 5. He also suffered from syphilis for more than twenty years. Vera Brodsky Lawrence, ed., The Collected Works of Scott Joplin (2 vols., New York Public Library, 1971). While we know that Joplin died of syphilis, figuring out the timeline for its progression is much harder. In it, David says his eyesight is failing, we walks around bent over due to pain, there is a loathesome disease in his loin, his friends keep their distance due to his awful odor, and more. In 1899 he published his first ragtime pieces, the "Original Rags." Although the most effective treatment for syphilis, penicillin, wouldnt come into widespread use until after WWII, scientists. He is known for works like Irises and Starry Night and is considered the greatest Dutch painter after Rembrandt. Joplin played pre-ragtime "jig-piano" in various red-light districts throughout the mid-South, and some claim he was in Sedalia and St. Louis, Missouri, during this time. A post shared by Mauricio Jose (@mau_bickle2003). Emi Ferguson: We don't know all of what Joplin destroyed in this paranoid state, brought on by his syphilis. With the laboratory discovery of the bacterium that causes syphilis, more advancement followed. , which takes place on a plantation in Arkansas in September of 1884, and traces the journey of a young Black woman named Treemonisha, who becomes a leader of her community. He was forgotten, and Ragtime was no longer popular. Joplin, Scott (18681917). 1867April 1, 1917) remains the best-known ragtime musician and composer, setting the standard for the many who followed. As Joplin's father had played the violin for plantation parties in North Carolina and his mother sang and played the banjo,[5] Joplin was given a rudimentary musical education by his family, and from the age of seven he was allowed to play the piano while his mother cleaned. In 1973, film producer George Roy Hill contacted Schuller and Rifkin separately, asking both men to write the score for a film project he was working on: The Sting. Syphilis starts with no symptoms at all or as a painless sore on your mouth, rectum or genitals that usually goes away without treatment in two or three weeks. [42] However, the son of publisher John Stark stated that Joplin was a rather mediocre pianist and that he composed on paper, rather than at the piano. In June 1904, Joplin married Freddie Alexander of Little Rock, Arkansas, the young woman to whom he had dedicated "The Chrysanthemum". Emi Ferguson: In the 1970s as both a result of a ragtime revival and the movie The Sting starring Paul Newman and Robert Redford, Joplins music comes back into popularity, and its stayed popular ever since. He also suffered from a few debilitating conditions and illnesses, which contributed to his mental and physical problems in the last few years. As a result, By mid-January, 1917, he had to be hospitalized and was soon transferred to a mental institution where he died on April 1, 1917. For one, he knew he had syphilis and he talked about it. [55], The combination of classical music, the musical atmosphere present around Texarkana (including work songs, gospel hymns, spirituals and dance music) and Joplin's natural ability have been cited as contributing significantly to the invention of a new style that blended African-American musical styles with European forms and melodies and first became celebrated in the 1890s: ragtime. But judging by what Joplin claimed to various newspapers while he was alive, and titles of lost works written down by one of his friends, we have a sense of whats been lost. But again, we just really don't have any way of knowing. Web52. All copyrighted materials included within the Handbook of Texas Online are in accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. 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